Preliminary Task - Miss Georgiou

For this task, my group, including me, Dan Armstrong and Joe Smith were asked to film and edit a short scene to show what camera skills we had. The clip was to be short, no longer than a minute long but was set in place to give a better understanding of our main task to allow us a chance to get more familiar with the filming equipment and camera whether being in front or behind it. It also gave us a chance to use an editing programme to give us a greater knowledge on how it works and the steps taken into making a short clip. By doing this it should benefit our final clip and main task as we were able to have a test run on the whole process we are about to begin.

For the filming, our teacher put in place a few details our clip had to feature so we had a narrative to play around with and make our own. It involved filming and editing a character walking and opening a door, crossing the room to join another character, before having a few lines of dialogue and then exiting the room. These were the only guidelines put in place so the location, cinematography, other micro-elements and dialogue content was for us to customise and make our own. However to make our clip as good and professionally as possible we all agreed to include as many micro-elements as we could, however it must be appropriate the shot we are using.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c61PKo4qoyg

After filming our short clip we then returned to our class and uploaded our video content onto the macs, after searching through the possible clips we had shot to make sure the best ones were used we then inserted them into the editor and arranged them into order. Once that step had been carried out it was time for us to edit the shots to try and merge them as seamlessly together as possible to maintain continuity and flow. To do so we soon realised a lot of the shots needed to be cut accordingly to stop our whole clip becoming one big jump shot. Carrying out this step we realised how hard it was because we were unfamiliar with the editing software however nearing the end of the task we could all spot where clips needed to be edited or cut further and had a greater understanding of how to make the final product of our minute long clip as good as we possibly could, editing-wise, which can greatly enhance and scene.